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Apple has agreed to make older versions of Final Cut Studio 3 available for purchase, following several months of customer backlash against the radically redesigned Final Cut Pro X. When Final Cut Pro X was released in June, Apple touted the release ...

Mac OS X Lion has been downloaded more than one million times in its first day of release. Lion is the first Mac OS X release to be available exclusively through the Mac App Store. According to Apple, OS X Lion is selling faster than any other OS rel...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is right around the corner. Is your Mac ready? About a week and a half ago, Apple released the Golden Master version of Lion to Apple Developers. The final version is expected to hit the Mac App Store soon -- perhaps in the next fe...

Skype has updated its Mac OS X client to support screen sharing in group video calls. The peer-to-peer web calling service added screensharing to the Mac client in 2009, but it has only worked during one-on-one calls. Anyone who has ever tried to use...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Earlier this week, web-based code hosting service GitHub released GitHub for Mac, a free Git client for Mac OS X ...

Mac OS X 10.6.8, possibly the last update in the Mac OS X 10.6 series, is now available for download. The latest OS release fixes some niggling issues and hardens security. It also helps prepare Mac users for the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Ma...

Apple has released Final Cut Pro X, the latest version of its professional video-editing software. Apple showed off the new version of the software at NAB in April and video professionals were impressed not only with the new features, but with the ne...

Apple launched its back-to-school promotion Thursday, offering students a $100 gift card for the Mac App Store when they purchase a new Mac. The promotion runs from June 16 through September 20. International Apple Stores are also taking part in the ...

Apple has released the official version of FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store. The app is included with new MacBook Pro machines and is available for download for $0.99 in the Mac App Store . FaceTime made its debut with the iPhone 4 as a way for ...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. For web developers, a key part of the toolkit is a solid text editor. Vi and Emacs wars aside, there are lots of ...

Adobe has announced that the public beta of Adobe Audition, its professional audio editing suite, is now available for Mac OS X. Adobe Audition has been available for Windows since 2003 (when Adobe acquired the Windows program, Cool Edit Pro) but thi...

Last week, Apple officially announced the Mac App Store as a major new addition to the Mac software ecosystem. Although the Mac App Store will be an integral part of Mac OS X Lion, it will make its debut this winter. Developers will be able to start ...

A traditional hard drive isn't the only thing missing from the brand new MacBook Air — Adobe Flash plugins are also missing from Apple's latest pint-sized creation. As first noted by Engadget, the MacBook Air eschews long-standing Mac OS X tradition ...

In the upcoming version of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple will be bringing many of its best iOS features to the Mac. First on the list? The App Store. That's right, there will be a Mac App Store. The App Store for iOS has been an unprecedented success, wi...

After an 18-year absence, AutoCAD is finally coming back to Mac OS X. Autodesk, the company that makes the CAD program that has become he defacto industry standard, last released a native Mac version of its flagship product in 1992. Not only is AutoC...

The Microsoft Mac team has posted the first in a series of videos that show off some of the new features in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The next version of Office for Mac, which includes the valiant return of Outlook for Mac, is due out by the end...

When Apple released Safari 5 earlier this summer, one of the new features included the ability to (finally!) install third-party extensions; today the company has released Safari 5.0.1 and, with it, an official extension gallery. The Safari extension...

Today Tapbots, makers of iPhone utility apps Pastebot and Convertbot, have released their latest application, Calcbot for the iPhone and iPad. The $0.99 app is great looking, highly functional and works beautifully on both the iPad and the iPhone. It...

Google has just dispatched a new stable release for its Chrome web browser, this time for Mac and Linux as well as Windows. Some of the new features in the newest version of Google Chrome for Mac include the ability to sync bookmarks and browser sett...

Update: Steam for Mac is now live! Attention all Mac gaming fans, Valve is officially launching its Steam for Mac service later today. If you aren't familiar with Steam, think of it as the iTunes for PC games. Instead of buying a physical box with an...

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Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read e-books on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon. Like its applications for iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry a...

Tweetie for Mac is the newest bonus edition to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2, which gives Mac users an opportunity to buy a variety of software for a discounted price. Additionally, buyers will also get early access to the pre-public beta for Tweetie 2 f...

Last week, we wrote about how the Mac and iPhone communities came together to raise money for Haiti. The project, called Indie+Relief is pretty awesome: A bunch of independent Mac and iPhone developers pledged to donate the sales from their apps on J...

For Mac OS X users, desktop social media clients almost always involve a trade-off. We can either use multiple apps to update our profiles and services or we can use programs like TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop that work with lots of services, but rely...

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